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NZCS Newsline 3 February 2012
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This week:

  • Paul Matthews: New Zealand as a tech destination
  • Juha Saarinen: The Dotcom bust
  • Nat Torkington: Powers of Ten on SOPA
  • Bertrand Meyer: How do we advance software engineering?
  • Spotlight event: Chris Date (Database legend) coming to NZ
  • ICT around town: All the latest ICT-related events in your area
 
This Week at NZCS

Paul Matthews New Zealand as a tech destination
by Paul Matthews, NZCS CEO

Many people look to Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area as the epitome of tech innovation worldwide, and for very good reason. A large chunk of the world's top tech companies are connected in some way to the Valley.

What many don't realise however, is that very few of the people behind these great companies actually originated from San Fran or Silicon Valley. Most moved there because it was "the place to be", surrounded by other tech companies also doing great things; In actuality creating a self-fulfilling reputation as the home of innovative technology.

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Juha Saarinen The Dotcom bust
by Juha Saarinen

Another year has started and on the copyright crime front, it looks like Kim Dotcom will spend a good deal more time in jail while the legal machinery grinds on to decide whether or not they can be extradited. 

My bet is that everyone arrested will be extradited, no matter what arguments the Megaupload defence team comes up with. Judge McNaughton disregarded some of the wilder claims from the US authorities, but with prosecution threatening to seek the maximum penalty for Dotcom et al...

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Nat Torkington Powers of Ten on SOPA
by Nat Torkington, Internet Guru

The IBM Powers of Ten video is a classic: as the stolid narrator ticks off powers of ten, the camera pulls back or zooms in and a new layer of complexity is revealed. We need a Powers of Ten video for SOPA.

At the initial scale, Hollywood lobbyists convinced Congress to push a bill through that would give Hollywood a measure of control over Internet sites by facilitating DNS takedowns, placing liability on site operators, and generally placing restrictions on Internet businesses designed to benefit existing content distributors.

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Bertrand Meyer How do we advance software engineering?
by Bertrand Meyer, Computer Scientist

Airplanes today are incomparably safer than 20, 30, 50 years ago: 0.05 deaths per billion kilometers. That's not by accident.

Rather, it's by accidents. What has turned air travel from a game of chance into one of the safest modes of traveling is the relentless study of crashes and other mishaps. In the US the National Transportation Safety Board has investigated more than 110,000 accidents since it began its operations in 1967. Any accident must, by law, be investigated thoroughly.

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Chris Date (Database legend) coming to NZ
by Spotlight event

C. J. Date is an internationally renown independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant specializing in relational database technology (author of "An Introduction to Database Systems" which has sold some 850,000 copies and is used worldwide). Now he's coming to New Zealand in March.

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